Knoxville, TN, July 25, 2011—A partnership of 17 institutions today announced the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE will be the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.

The Jaguar and Kraken supercomputers housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility and the University of Tennessee’s National Institute for Computational Sciences continued to demonstrate their balanced architectures, taking half the top spots in this year’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) Challenge.

With twin awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $3.4 million, the University of Tennessee-managed National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) will add 300 teraflops to the TeraGrid’s total computational capability.